California chef Suzanne Goin will cook at a special Frasca dinner on Feb. 18. (Photo courtesy David Young-Wolff)

Sometimes dining fans must seek out the chef, sometimes the chef comes to them. In about five weeks, Front Range food mavens get treated to the latter.

Suzanne Goin, a Californian who has gained a sterling reputation for her Los Angeles restaurants (A.O.C., Lucques and others) and her cookbooks, will be a guest chef at Frasca in Boulder on Feb. 18. (The original date was Feb. 19, but the event had to be rescheduled.) She will collaborate with Frasca chef Lachlan Mackinnon Patterson, plus sommelier Bobby Stuckey, to create a dinner inspired by her noted “The A.O.C. Cookbook.”

Talk about cred: In 2006, Goin won two James Beard Foundation Awards, one for Best Chef California and the other for “Sunday Suppers at Lucques,” her other cookbook. From 2008-2011, she was nominated for the Beard award’s overall Chef of the Year honor. (Speaking of those awards, Stuckey himself was a 2013 Beard winner for Best Sommelier.)

Reservations for the evening are $148 per person. Dinner will feature a four-course menu, paired wines, and a signed copy of the cookbook. Reservations and more information can be had by calling Frasca at 303-442-6966.

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